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| Broadcom integrates GPS and FM into Mobile chip |
2/10/2009 |
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Broadcom claims its device, the BCM2075, significantly reduces the host and application processing required by competing combo solutions, enabling greater adoption in mass market handsets.
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| Hynix announced 40nm DDR3 |
2/9/2009 |
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It requires less energy and costs less to produce. Mass production begins in the third quarter of this year.
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| ON Semi to streamline, close more fabs |
2/9/2009 |
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ON Semiconductor Corp has announced it will cut another 350 jobs as it bumps the number of fabs it plans to close up from three to four by the end of Q1 2010 as part of its ongoing cost-reduction effort.
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| Patent reform needed? |
2/9/2009 |
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The U.S. Congress will take up patent reform soon despite failing to pass an ambitious package in the Senate last year. Exactly how legislators will attack the issue this time, and what--if anything--it should do is a matter of debate.
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| New RRAM break through announced |
2/9/2009 |
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Over the years, a slew of companies have explored RRAMS--with little or nothing to show for it. Sharp, Sony, Samsung, LSI, Panasonic, Winbond, Unity, Hynix, Micron, Elpida and others have or are exploring RRAM. In fact, Japanese chip makers have reportedly poured a combined $100 million in RRAM development,
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| Panasonic to cut 15,000 Jobs |
2/4/2009 |
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Panasonic said it will slash 15,000 jobs and shut 27 plants worldwide as the global slowdown batters the world's economy.
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| VIA Reports Revenue Drop in January |
2/4/2009 |
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VIA Technologies recently announced revenues of NT$367 million (US$11 million) for January this year, drops of 16.78% on month and 61.33% on year.
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| India unveils $20 Laptop |
2/3/2009 |
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India said it will sell a US$20 (S$30) laptop developed domestically by scientists at the Vellore Institute of Technology.
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| Chartered to axe 600 jobs |
2/3/2009 |
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Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. is reducing its worldwide workforce by approximately 600 people, or about 8 percent of its total employment.
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| Micron and MosAid settle IP Infringement |
2/3/2009 |
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Micron Technology Inc. will license the patent portfolio of Mosaid Technologies Inc., and Mosaid will acquire 400 Micron patents under the terms of an agreement to settle pending litigation.
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| SanDisk post 4th Quarter Loss |
2/3/2009 |
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SanDisk posted a net loss in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles of $1.86 billion, or $8.25 per share, on revenue of $864 million for the fourth quarter of 2008.
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| ProMos to receive NT$5 Billion in Loan |
2/3/2009 |
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ProMOS Technologies, one of Taiwan's financially-troubled DRAM chip suppliers, will receive a syndicated loan of NT$5 billion (US$148 million) from nine local banks.
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| Western Digital offers 2 Terabyte Hard Drive |
2/2/2009 |
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WD announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family.
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| Xillinx unveils latest FPGA |
2/2/2009 |
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Xilinx has announced launching the Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 families of field-programmable gate arrays.
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